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Call Time or Allow Timing Violation?
In NCAA play, the pitcher has ten seconds from when she gets onto the plate with her hands separated to take or simulate taking the signal, and putting her hands together. If she delays longer than ten seconds, the batter is awarded a ball.
So as the pitcher shakes off a couple of signals, the ten-second clock is close to running down. But then the batter requests Time as this delay continues. Do you:
1. Grant Time immediately since the batter requested it well before the pitcher was ready to deliver the pitch?
2. Not grant it and then penalize the pitcher with the ten-second violation if that happens; otherwise, leave the ball live?
3. Wait to grant it to see if there is going to be a violation, and then go ahead and grant it the moment the pitcher brings her hands together before the ten seconds elapse?
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